Throat chakra crystals
You are drawn to the throat chakra for a reason. These are the stones tradition puts there.
25 stones get tied to the throat chakra, Amazonite, Angelite and Aquamarine among them. That pairing comes from old stories, not from the rock. So each entry keeps them apart. What the stone is made of and how to spot a fake first. What tradition claims for it second.
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Amazonite6-6.5 Mohs · feldspar · heart, throatAmazonite grew in cooling granite, in the last pockets of melt to harden. The green comes from a trace of lead locked in it. Nobody dyed…
Angelite3.5 Mohs · sulphate · throat, third-eye, crownAngelite is a salt left behind where an ancient sea dried up. Burial and heat drove the water out of it. It wants that water back. Leave…
Aquamarine7.5-8 Mohs · silicate · throat, heartNearly every blue aquamarine in a shop window has been in an oven, at around 400 degrees, to burn the green out. It is permanent. No…
Aura Quartz7 Mohs · quartz · crown, third-eye, throatThe quartz is real. It grew in rock like any other piece. Then a person put it in a vacuum chamber and bonded a film of vaporised metal…
Azurite3.5-4 Mohs · carbonate · third-eye, throatAzurite forms at the top of a copper deposit, where water and air have been rotting the ore for a very long time. It is the most…
Black Kyanite4.5-7 Mohs · silicate · root, throatAfter certain people leave, you go around opening windows. Black kyanite gets sold for exactly that feeling. It grows in splayed blades…
Blue Apatite5 Mohs · phosphate · throat, third-eyeBlue apatite is the mineral your teeth are made of. Your bones too. One version grows in cooling rock, the other grows in you. The name…- Blue Aventurine6.5 to 7 Mohs · quartzite · throat, third-eyeBlue aventurine is a rock, not a crystal. That is the right place to start, because almost everything written about it starts somewhere…
Blue Kyanite4.5-7 Mohs · silicate · throat, third-eyeKyanite needs burial to exist. Clay rich rock gets pushed down and squeezed until the aluminium in it grows into blue blades. It came…
Blue Lace Agate6.5-7 Mohs · chalcedony · throatThe message is typed. You have read it four times and it is still sitting there. Blue lace agate built up in a lava cavity the same way…
Celestite3-3.5 Mohs · sulphate · throat, third-eye, crownCelestite is losing its colour while you look at it. A sunny sill bleaches the blue out and it never comes back. It grew from strontium…- Chalcedony6 to 7 Mohs · quartz · throatChalcedony is quartz that never grew up into crystals. Instead of one clear six sided prism, it is billions of quartz fibres, each…
Chrysocolla2.5-7 Mohs · silicate · throat, heartRain got into a copper deposit and worked on it for ages. It broke the ore apart and left this blue-green crust in the cracks. It is the…
Fluorite4 Mohs · halide · third-eye, throat, heartFluorite survives almost nothing. A steel knife cuts it. One knock splits it clean along a flat plane, and long sun pulls the purple…
Iolite7-7.5 Mohs · silicate · third-eye, throatOld seabed mud got buried under a mountain and cooked until it came out as a different mineral. Turn it under one lamp. Violet blue from…
Labradorite6-6.5 Mohs · feldspar · third-eye, throat, crownGrey and dull, like something off a driveway. Then you tilt it under a lamp and a sheet of blue switches on inside it. That flash is…
Lapis Lazuli5-6 Mohs · rock (aggregate) · third-eye, throatLimestone got cooked where hot magma pushed into it, and parts of it came out deep blue. One valley in Afghanistan has been mined for it…
Larimar4.5-5 Mohs · silicate · throat, heartSunlight takes the blue out of it, slowly and for good. Salt and long soaking dull it too. It filled gas bubbles in volcanic rock in one…
Ocean Jasper6.5-7 Mohs · chalcedony · heart, throatIt is not a jasper. Silica soaked into old Madagascan lava and replaced it, keeping the little balls of crystal that grew while the lava…- Sapphire9 Mohs · corundum · throat, third-eyeSapphire and ruby are the same mineral. Both are corundum, aluminium oxide, and what separates them is a trace of something that should…
Sodalite5.5-6 Mohs · silicate · throat, third-eyeSodalite formed in magma that ran out of silica. Where quartz would normally grow, this blue grew instead. Then it got sold as lapis…
Tanzanite6-7 Mohs · silicate · third-eye, crown, throatTanzanite came out of one small patch of hills in northern Tanzania in 1967. There is nowhere else on earth. It does not come out blue…- Topaz8 Mohs · nesosilicate · solar-plexus, throatTopaz grows in the last hot breath of a cooling granite, in the cavities and gas pockets where fluorine-rich vapour has nowhere left to…
Turquoise5-6 Mohs · phosphate · throat, third-eyeTurquoise is central to Navajo, Zuni and Puebloan life. It is worn, inherited and made into work by living artists right now. The stone…- Zircon6 to 7.5 Mohs · nesosilicate · root, throat, third-eyeStart with the thing the shop counter will not say, because it is the whole reason this stone is treated as cheap. Zircon is not cubic…
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